Summer Camp Music Assistant Instructor

*4 hours a week hybrid May to June, and then 25-40 hours a week in-person from June 23rd- Aug 1st*

The Summer Camp Music Assistant Instructor ensures high quality music programming for our students and is the lead instructor for our Teen Music Moguls program. The music mogul's curriculum teaches students how to work in teams to create an original song and then how to record, market and perform the song for an audience. This staff member maintains a physically and emotionally safe environment with clear and consistent limits and expectations and facilitates the music mogul's curriculum.

Major Responsibilities and Key Task

• Plan and co-facilitate the Music Moguls Curriculum
• Completes all paperwork and online tracking including entering attendance daily into Cityspan
• Communicates with youth and families and conducts professionalism conversations with youth to address and mitigate any behavior or attendance issues.
• Maintain program records for your class, including, but not limited to, classroom attendance, meal counts, child assessments, accident reports, referrals for social services, and anecdotal notes related to health, peer relationships, individualized goals, etc.
• Maintain emotional and physical safety
• Create a welcoming environment for all youth families using group-established norms and expectations.
• Communicate successes and incidents with parents and set goals with youth
• Maintain systems to recognize positive behaviors and build social emotional skills in all youth
• Create and follow up with action plans with parents and youth to correct any negative, unsafe, or disruptive behaviors
• Ensure high quality programming based on Youth Program Quality Assessment measures
• Ensure all behavior and goal setting discussions between staff/volunteers and youth/families is strengths based, youth centric and solution focused 
• Ensure all supplies, classroom, common use areas and playground are maintained and left better than the way they were found
• Maintain overall professional personal appearance adhering to the guidelines of CRCL
• Participate in staff meetings, training sessions, conferences, workshops, and other professional development activities
• Performs other duties as assigned 

Required Education and Experiences

 Applicant for the position of Summer Camp Music Assistant Instructor must possess the following:

• Bachelor's in Arts in Education, Music, Youth Development or related field 
• At least 2 years of youth development experience, preferable in music education 
• CPR Must be completed before beginning

Essential Job Functions

• Required frequent sitting, standing, bending, or stooping for prolonged periods
• Requires physical agility to attend to the physical needs and activity levels of children
• Must be able to resolve problems, handle conflict, and make effective decisions under pressure
• Must be flexible in dealing with a variety of people
• Ability to use curriculum and PowerPoint presentations
• Must exhibit respect, understanding and patience to all children and adults from all cultural backgrounds, with an appreciation for their interests, creativity, capabilities, beauty and means of expression. 
• Demonstrated listening skills, appropriate role modeling, and responsiveness to children.
• Demonstrated skills and experience in planning and implementing challenging, interesting activities for school aged children and their families.
• Follows procedures as required by licensing and funding agencies (including but not limited to Illinois DCFS Licensing Standards, City of Chicago Health Requirements for Day Care Centers, Head Start Performance Standards, Chicago Public School requirements, Carole Robertson Center for Learning Policies and Procedures and quality standards as defined by the National Association for the Education of Young Children

Benefits

• Retirement savings plan (401(k))
• Paid Time Off (vacation, sick time holidays)
• Employee Assistance Program

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